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Key Club Trick-or-Treating tops $130,000

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Costumed Key Clubbers and members of other Kiwanis Service Leadership Program clubs hit the streets this past Halloween with their UNICEF coin-collection boxes, raising US$134,209.93. The event is a major fundraiser in our quest to collect US$1.5 million for Operation Uruguay.

For more than 60 years, children in the United States have gone door to door collecting coin donations for UNICEF. Since 1994, Key Club has joined in the fun Trick. Like Kiwanis, UNICEF is a worldwide organization dedicated to serving children’s needs. Over the past 16 years, Key Clubbers—with help from Builders Clubs—have raised nearly US$5 million for iodine deficiency programs worldwide, HIV and AIDS programs in Kenya and Swaziland and, most recently,